On Jun 21, Mark Baker wrote
> For libg++, I'd wait until there's a libg++272 package, and install the
> development stuff from that; for ncurses there are libc6 versions of the
> library itself, I'm not sure about the development stuff but a
> force-depends seems to work (the header files aren't ch
On Jun 22, joost witteveen wrote
> > I've been compiling bo/source using the script I posted some
> > time ago. Some common problems:
> >
> > - no newline at end
>
> I still consider this a dpkg problem -- patch/diff themselves don't seem
> to have any problems with this. Am I right here?
The ol
On Jun 27, Graham C. Hughes wrote
> There's a slight problem with that, BTW. From the Amulet documentation:
>
> Amulet is available for free by anonymous FTP or WWW. ... The only
> restriction is that the documentation for Amulet is copyrighted, so you
> cannot distribute the Amulet manual or p
On Mon, Dec 08, 1997 at 11:31:10AM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:
> I just downloaded the latest libpam packages. They depend on a new libpwdb
> package that doesn't seem to be anywhere on master. Where do I find it? I
> have now installed libpam in parts due to this dependency. Hopefully I can
> for
On Thu, Jan 01, 1998 at 07:08:44AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> We need someone to do a non-maintainer upgrade of libc5-altdev, installing
> the patch in David Engel's mail. I'm busy with boot floppies. Can someone
> pretty please do this?
I've tried to, but it missed a description for the -d
On Sat, Jan 03, 1998 at 07:09:38PM +0100, Christian Schwarz wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Richard Braakman wrote:
[-lc issue]
> Basically, I agree with you. However, I think we should stick to the usual
> procedure. That is, we should prepare a policy change which will then be
> discussion on debia
On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 12:30:09PM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> If anyone else has a more pressing need to maintain these packages, now is
> the time to step forward. If I hear no objections, I will work toward
> applying David's patch and getting a new release of libc5 out ASAP
You did notice the
On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 11:33:25PM +0200, Amos Shapira wrote:
> I might be missing something here, but after being beaten by crackers who
> simply put a password sniffer on one of my Debian machines, I'd strongly
> recommand the Debian leaders to reconsider the policy of plain ftp and
> telnet. In
On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 11:34:01PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> In my continuing testing of deity I have discovered a number of packages
> that had/have a self referencing depends, ie:
> I just want to be sure that this IS a packaging bug and not something done
> deliberately. It looks like the
On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 02:46:25PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> BTW: Now that I think of it... Does the fact that unzip-crypt provides
> unzip make unzip to be a virtual package?
Yes. Though other packages can still have "Depends:", "Conflicts:" etc. with
the concrete pkunzip package if there is
On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 01:49:31PM +0100, Meskes, Michael wrote:
> I just filed bug reports against nextaw and xaw95 because they don't list
> axe as incompatible. However, afterwards Ray told me that I could as well
> include the incompatibility list with axe. So I wonder which way is to
> prefer?
On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 03:13:05PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 03:10:19PM +0100, Bart Schuller wrote:
> > I mut say I find the policy with respect to split or renamed packages
> > getting stuck in Incoming suboptimal. First e2fsprogsg, now killall.
>
> Please file a bugr
> > A few shortcomings of the current install docs:
> >
> > They don't even mention fips anywhere, let alone how to use it to avoid
> > having to reinstall windoze (The developer who creates the tools to
> > safely ,i.e. non-destructively, modify existing partitions during the
> > installation sho
On Sun, Jan 11, 1998 at 01:56:41PM +, Markus Schauler wrote:
> junkbuster is a www privacy-enhancer. Acting a a filtering proxy, it
> prevents private information (browser type, operating system..) from
> beeing revealed to the outside and blocks unwanted advertisements and
> cookies.
Already
On Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 09:43:08AM +0300, Amos Shapira wrote:
> Looking for support for Qmail's maildir format in Debian packages, I came
> up with empty hands.
Look more closely. Mutt handles maildir.
> Would it be possible to add this to the debian policy to have Maildir
> support in packages l
On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 01:47:53AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > AFAIK there is no DFSG-free MTA that supports Maildir. Therefore I don't
> > think that Maildir support should be obligatory via Debian policy.
>
> Exim does.
In that case I'm in fav
On Tue, Apr 07, 1998 at 07:45:23PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
>Xteddy is a cuddly teddy bear for your X Windows desktop. It is more or
>less an excersise for package bundling and maintaining.
Well, you could make it a coding exercise by modifying it to be able to
choose a pixmap through t
On Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 02:18:07PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> But who is xcaptainblueeye???
If I remember correctly, "Captain Blueeye" is the name of the entity
depicted in the Debian logo.
Come to think of it, xtux might be a better name than xpenguin (as the Linux
Penguin is called "Tux").
On Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 04:20:07PM +0200, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
> I am using lftp 0.14.3.980328-1
Upgrade.
>From the new changelog:
lftp (0.14.3.980402-1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release:
* null dereference in rglob.cc fixed (very nasty bug! lftp was giving
cor
On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 06:12:34PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> I think we should backout egcs and libstdc++2.8 from hamm and go back to
> the old g++. For one, altg++ doesn't even work with it.
I strongly disagree. g++2.8/egcs + libstdc++2.8 is the first version of the
GNU C++ development environm
On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 11:07:02PM -0500, Alex Romosan wrote:
> and the error:
>
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lXpm: No such file or directory
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> but the library exists:
>
> ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4*
>0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1
On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 10:27:25AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > Regrettably, we don't have a libg++2.8.1.1 package yet.
>
> Well that means prcs should be moved out of hamm unfortunately unless we
> back off to libg++272.
Unfortunately, yes.
> > Please ask the prcs upstream authors to move away
On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 09:32:12AM -0400, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
> I also had a very similar problem with -lXt, the only difference is that I
> used altgcc for compilation. Btw, what is the prefered way to use it?
I don't think there's just one right way to use it. Personally, I'd try
something li
Hi Fabrizio, Ulf,
Currently, the libdb2++ and libsidplay1-dev packages are the only ones that
depend on the virtual libg++-dev package.
In the past, upstream libg++ (e.g. libg++27) contained both the C++ standard
library and the GNU specific C++ classes. Currently, upstream libg++
contains only t
There now appear to be a few search sites that cover a lot of mailing
lists:
http://www.reference.com/
and
http://www.findmail.com/
Both already have many major linux lists (like [EMAIL PROTECTED])
(for reference.com: search mailing list directory for "Linux"; for
findmail.com: see
You wrote:
>Apparently, it doesn't like version numbers in "Packages" which contain a
>colon. It stops at cdda2wav, because the version number contains ":".
That's the "epoch" feature, used in cases where the upstream version
numbering scheme changed, to make set dpkg's idea of which versions are
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 09:05:00PM +0100, Marco Budde wrote:
> j>http://www.reference.com/
> j> and
> j>http://www.findmail.com/
>
> Nice for spams :(.
We already have lists archives on the web; your homepage has two email
addresses on it already.
I don't think archiving our messages at
On Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 09:48:42AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
> That will be a problem with lyx as the upstream side is thinking about a
> switch anyway, but qt is the leading candidate there.
I got the impression that KLyX is a forked version, and that the LyX
maintianers are trying to make cle
As far as I can tell this license is DFSG-free; please let me know if you
disagree.
Copyright (c) 1997-1998 by Armin Biere.
Author: Armin Biere.
Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any
purpose on any computer system, and to redistribute it freely,
subject to the following r
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 11:58:57AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> I have been getting bounced mail from the testing mailing list sent to Dan
> Quinlan. Can anyone verify that he has indeed left the project, or give me
> a new address for him?
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ still has a mailto [EMAIL PR
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 12:22:32PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> Since ae has been converted to slang I have been having many problems with
> the keybindings for ae.
I have just done a NMU of slang1 for slink; please check if using that makes
a difference.
Greetings,
Ray
--
POPULATION EXPLOSION
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 07:00:24PM +0100, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 09:53:54AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > As far as I can tell this license is DFSG-free; please let me know if you
> > disagree.
> > Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any
> > pur
On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 08:25:06AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Apr 1998, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > FWIW, I just tried it on my Debian 2.0 2.0.32 machine:
> what means FWIW ?
For what it's worth.
Note: there are several useful acronym lists / search systems on the web,
e.g.
h
On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 02:17:18AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> I also got this warning, which makes me nervous. Anyone care to explain to
> me what is happening?
>
> dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unknown output from ldd on
> `debian/tmp-xlib6/usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6.1': `
> ./debian/tmp-
On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 06:14:05PM -0400, krynux wrote:
> I was wandering, is there a DEC Alpha version of Debian linux or are you
> planning on doing one ? I know there is a RedHat version, but...
People are working on an Alpha port of Debian GNU/Linux. The mailing list
for it is debian-alpha@lis
On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 04:50:45PM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote:
> Further, the policy should require maintainers to tag bug reports about
> programs running suid root "critical".
>From http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer.html#severities
:critical
: makes unrelated software on the system (o
On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 09:45:27AM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> It is currently, but not for too much longer, sitting in:
> http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg/Public/Usenix-88-lexic.pdf
>
> Please let me know if you've got a home for it, so I'll know when I can
> remove the file from the ht
On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 12:10:54AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Actually, when Debian was formed it had only one developer,
> and no one could contribute packages, since that would have diluted
> the distributions tight integration. This bazaar thing has evolved.
I remember Debian 0.0
On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 08:16:56AM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote:
> At 16:29 +0200 1998-05-07, Martin Schulze wrote:
> >On Wed, May 06, 1998 at 07:43:45PM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote:
> >Nope! Non-Maintainer releases doesn't justfify closing of bugreports.
> >They only justify 'severity normal'.
> I was
On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 04:03:46PM +0200, Alexander Koch wrote:
> I've a Planetc satfeed and there's a module satlink.c (.o
> respectively) which doesn't want to compile w/ glibc.
> No prob with that, I added a "-I/usr/i486-linuxlibc1/" to
> the gcc call and it compiled.
The recommended way of com
On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 04:28:09PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> I am wondering that there is no libg++ in hamm compatible with egcs. I
> know, that a lot of things moved to libstdc++, but for me things like the
> Integer class are still useful.
>
> Has somebody a libg++ debian package?
I'm worki
On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 07:59:21PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> It seems to me that bug #21998 against xbase (xbase provides a manpage
> for Xnest) should be promoted to severe: while this bug exists it's
> impossible to install xnest.
>
> Am I way off base here?
Not really, except that Branden is
On Thu, Jun 04, 1998 at 11:26:38AM +0200, Nils Rennebarth wrote:
> Btw: Am I right that C++ programs need to be compiled with egcs for debian
> now?
They do not necessarily need to be recompiled with g++ (which is egcs's);
libg++272 still runs and development of binaries with it is still possible.
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 02:10:52PM +0200, Michael Dietrich wrote:
> why is mutt compiled without pgp-support as default?
Because of US export restrictions on software containing cryptographic code.
The version that's available from ftp.debian.org and its mirrors ("mutt") is
compiled without PGP s
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 05:28:46PM +0200, Paul Seelig wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim) writes:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > > We _must_ have a vi (or at worst, vi clone) available in the base
> > > system.
ME TOO
> This doesn't touch the fact that MC would be a very convenient additional
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 02:26:50PM +0200, Michael Dietrich wrote:
> who maintains the mkdosfs package
There's no separate mkdosfs package anymore; it has been merged into
'dosfstools' which is maintained by [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
HTH,
Ray
--
UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other peop
On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 03:54:57PM +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
> Now I don't know: When I recompile the package using the official g++ 2.90
> / libstdc++ 2.80 combo, this may introduce new bugs, therefore I'm sure
> Brian won't allow this to go into frozen.
IIRC, at least one package has been fi
On Sat, Jun 13, 1998 at 08:01:51PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> For some reason with the newest hamm I have been getting lots of cca*
> files in /tmp, they are all 0 size and all created by my user. There are
> about 1000 of them right now - anyone know what is making these files so I
> can file
On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 12:41:28AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I noticed xftp on the WNPP as being orphaned, and it is a program that
> I have used and sort of like (but always thought it could use some work)
> xftp, so I thought I would grab the source.
>
> xftp is in main in both hamm and
On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 03:10:43PM +0200, Michael Dietrich wrote:
> i started with slang and noticed that there is nearly no documentation and
> no good screen/kbd support at all.
The S-Lang packages do not contain the documentation; there is good
reference documentation available from the S-Lang
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